Parafossarulus sungariensis

Parafossarulus sungariensis is a species of freshwater snail with gills and an operculum, an aquatic prosobranch gastropod mollusk in the family Bithyniidae.

Parafossarulus sungariensis
Conservation status
Data Deficient  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Family:	Bithyniidae
Genus:	Parafossarulus
Species:	P. sungariensis
Binomial name
Parafossarulus sungariensis Moskvicheva in Starobogatov & Zatravkin, 1987[2]

The specific name sungariensis comes from the name of the Sungari River, where this species was found.

Distribution

This species occurs in Heilongjiang Province and in Jilin Province in northeastern China.^[1]

The type locality is the Sungari River basin, a small lake near Harbin.^[2]

Habitat

Parafossarulus sungariensis lives in freshwater lakes and rivers.^[1]